The purpose of this paper is to introduce the emerging educational focus of global citizenship education
(GCE), to analyze the efficacy of GCE in presenting the current status of citizenship education in college,
and to propose tasks going into the future. To this end, we describe citizenship education at S University,
located in Seoul, and our investigation of its curriculum, design, and course satisfaction. Pre- and post-tests
were administered to 150 students who took the citizenship course, and paired sample t-tests were
performed to verify citizenship education’s effects. We also analyzed students’ written opinions concerning
global citizenship and global citizenship education. The major findings are as follows: first, among various
citizenship elements, students thought that “voting” was the most important; second, there was a significant
difference in the pre- and post-test results regarding global citizenship; and third, students perceived gender equality (gender discrimination) to be the most urgent citizenship issue. These were followed by income
disparity (polarization of wealth), human rights, social justice, low birth rate and aging, and environmental
protection. In essence, college students exhibited higher-than-average global citizenship; although they
mentioned a need for education in some elements of citizenship, there was a gap between their perceived
need and their actual participation. Based on these findings, we present points to be addressed in the
current curriculum and the study of the direction GCE is to take, as well as some potential curricular and
extracurricular educational experiences.